Five Lessons from the Giants Game

Summary of 3 articles · Updated Dec 10, 2013

Here are five lessons we learned from Sunday’s 37-17 win over the New York Giants. And that was the theme of Pete Carroll’s press conference Monday, to learn from the lessons of the defeat, which I recapped in this story here. The rest of the season will … (more)tell whether this is a defeat that is merely a blip on the radar, or something more. In other news this morning. … 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said this morning his team would have scored a TD if the Seahawks had let them: Seahawks.com puts its focus on Malcolm Smith, who now has to fill in for K.J. Wright; SI.com’s Jim Trotter says a humbling loss could be just what the Seahawks need; ESPN’s Terry Blount wonders if there should be concerns over Seattle’s run defense; Seahawks still ranked No. 1 in the NFL by ProFootballTalk; Some good insight here into the 49ers game with some grades from the San Jose Mercury News; New Orleans coach Sean Payton said he learned some things from Seattle’s crowd; Batkid was at the game Sunday; ESPNNewYork says the Seahawks’ visit should motivate the Giants; Giants WR Victor Cruz says that in an odd way, beating the Seahawks would make the season more disappointing for the Giants; Jason Pierre-Paul should play this week for the Giants; Giants.com says there is still a lot to play for; NFL.com wonders if that was the best weekend of football ever; Finally, interesting stat here from Gil Brandt. What else does have to do in order to secure the award? He leads all rookies in receptions and yards, and set a Chargers franchise record for

Tuesday links: Seahawks look for lessons in loss

As I’ve written here a few times, since the NFL expanded its season to 16 games in 1978, only one team has gone undefeated, and only six others have done as well as 15-1. So yeah, the odds were really against the Seahawks going 15-1 this year, even if i…